B2B. Less than a year after SouthComm founder Chris Ferrell left the company to form Endeavor Business Media, in Tennessee, he is buying his old company’s remaining B2B media including 16 magazines and 10 trade shows. Ferrell, who founded SouthComm Inc in 2007, has had to watch as the company has spent the past few months selling-off its weekly newspapers including the Nashville Post and Nashville Scene, the Washington City Paper, and Kansas City’s The Pitch. That (and the Ferrell departure that preceded the sell-off) was an apparent bid to focus on the B2B interests which the ex boss has now bought. Endeavor, which earlier this year completed two other deals, now has 23 publications, 17 websites, 20 trade shows and employs 190 people. Ferrell’s fellow directors in the ‘new’ company include ex SouthComm directors Townes Duncan (former chairman) and Patrick Rains. Neat play.
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B2B boss gets ‘his’ SouthComm back
